prob034: Warehouse Location Problem

proposed by

Brahim Hnich

brahim@4c.ucc.ie

Specification

In the Warehouse Location problem (WLP),  a company considers opening warehouses

at some candidate locations in order to supply its existing stores. Each possible warehouse

has the same maintenance cost, and a capacity designating the maximum number of stores

that it can supply. Each store must be supplied by exactly one open warehouse.

The supply cost to a store depends on the warehouse. The objective is to determine which

warehouses to open, and which of these warehouses should supply the various stores, such

that the sum of the maintenance and supply costs is minimized.

As an example (from the OPL book), consider the following data:

fixed = 30;

Warehouses = {Bonn,Bordeaux,London,Paris,Rome};

nbStores = 10; //labeled from 0 to 9

capacity = [1,4,2,1,3]; // capacity is indexed by Warehouses

// supplyCost in indexed bu Stores(0..9) and the set of Warehouses

supplyCost = [

       [ 20, 24, 11, 25, 30 ],

       [ 28, 27, 82, 83, 74 ],

       [ 74, 97, 71, 96, 70 ],

       [  2, 55, 73, 69, 61 ],

       [ 46, 96, 59, 83,  4 ],

       [ 42, 22, 29, 67, 59 ],

       [  1,  5, 73, 59, 56 ],

       [ 10, 73, 13, 43, 96 ],

       [ 93, 35, 63, 85, 46 ],

       [ 47, 65, 55, 71, 95 ] ];

Then, an optimal solution has value 383, where:

Stores of Bonn ={3}

Stores of Bordeaux = {8,6,5,1}

Stores of London ={9,7}

Stores of Paris ={}

Stores of Rome={4,2,0}


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